Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British author of novels like “The Remains of the Day,” was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday.

In a statement on its website, the Nobel committee said that Kazuo’s work demonstrated “great emotional force” and “has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

The 62-year-old is perhaps most famous for his 1990 novel “The Remains of the Day”– which was adapted into director James Ivory’s 1993 movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson that collected eight Oscar nominations.

The book followed a rule-bound butler in pre-World War II Britain whose sense of order is upset by the arrival of a new housekeeper and his employer’s support of Nazi Germany. It also won the prestigious Booker Prize.

Ishiguro first became known for works that explored the subject of repression and self-denial, including his 2005 screenplay for the James Ivory movie “The White Countess.”

In later years, he delved more into genres like sci-fi and fantasy that are not typically recognized by the Nobel committee.

His 2005 dystopian novel “Never Let Me Go” — adapted into a 2010 movie starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield — followed teenagers at a boarding school who realize they’ve been raised as clones whose body parts will be harvested for their genetic matches.

And his most recent novel, 2015’s “The Buried Giant,” explored fantasy tropes such as monsters, knights, swords and sorcery.

“If you mix Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, then you have Kazuo Ishiguro in a nutshell, but you have to add a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix,” Sara Danius, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said on Thursday. “Then you stir, but not too much, then you have his writings.”

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"The Simpsons" has an eerie knack for predicting the future, from Donald Trump's presidency to Nobel Prize winners. Here are 12 times the long-running comedy series got it right.

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2016 Nobel Prize Winner

In a 2010 episode, Milhouse predicted that Bengt R. Holmstrom would win the Nobel Prize in Economics and, sure enough, in 2016 Holmstrom and Oliver Hart were announced as joint winners of the prize.

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Donald Trump Presidency

Seventeen years ago in an episode titled "Bart to the Future," Lisa becomes president after Donald Trump, apparently, ruined the economy.

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Siegfried and Roy Tiger Attack

In 1993, an episode titled "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)," magicians in a Siegfried and Roy-like show got attacked by their trustworthy tiger.

In 2003, Roy was attacked by one of their white tigers during a live performance. He sustained injuries, but lived.

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Arnold Palmer

On the 28th season premiere, the satirical series made an Arnold Palmer joke... on the day that golfer Arnold Palmer died.

Homer Simpson tells his wife Marge that he plans to “Arnold Palmer” his pal Lenny.

He was of course referring to the lemonade and iced tea drink mixture -- which was named after the golfer.

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Faulty Voting Machine

During the 2012 elections, a voting machine proved faulty when votes cast for Barack Obama went to Mitt Romney instead.

In a 2008 episode, Homer Simpson went to the voting booths to cast a vote for Obama, but... his vote went to McCain instead.

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Higgs Boson

In a 1998 episode, "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace," Homer writes out an equation on a chalkboard which, if solved, “you get the mass of a Higgs boson that’s only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is," says Simon Singh, science author.

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Horse Meat Scandal

In 1994, an episode titled "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song," the lunch lady was seen reaching into a barrel labeled "assorted horse parts" and putting the meat into the school's lunch pot.

In 2013, it was reported that traces of horse DNA was found in beef products across the UK.

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Guitar Hero

The now basically extinct but once popular video game Guitar Hero was first released in 2005.

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Farmville

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In a 1998 episode, "The Simpsons" shows a scene were kids are excited to play in a yard work simulator.

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Old Beatles Letters

In Season 2's episode 18, "Brush With Greatness," Ringo Starr from the Beatles is shown responding to fan letters while saying: "They took the time to write me, and I don’t care if it takes me another 20 years. I’m going to answer every one of them."

Well, two women in England received a reply to their fan mail form Sir Paul McCartney 50 years later.

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Smart Watches

Sorry Apple, but "The Simpsons" had smart watches first.

In a 1995 episode in which the show is set in the future, Lisa's husband is shown speaking to a phone on his wrist.

The first smartwatch wasn't created until 2013.

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From Donald Trump’s presidency to Nobel Prize winners

"The Simpsons" has an eerie knack for predicting the future, from Donald Trump's presidency to Nobel Prize winners. Here are 12 times the long-running comedy series got it right.